Doodle Boy visits Radbrook Primary School in Shrewsbury.

Shropshire Star

Shrewsbury's very own Doodle Boy was in school for World Book day to inspire the pupils and also open the schools new library.

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00:00 We are honoured to welcome Joe Whale aka Doodle Boy to officially open our library at Radbrook Primary School.

00:08 Take it away Joe.

00:09 I declare this library open.

00:13 Yay!

00:16 Go on Joe.

00:17 Go on Joe.

00:18 Yay!

00:21 Wow.

00:22 Woohoo!

00:24 So basically when I'm starting a drawing I start off with a simple shape so you know

00:30 at the minute I'm just doing like a spiky character.

00:35 I don't name my characters but you guys can if you want.

00:38 You guys like art?

00:39 Yeah.

00:40 You like art?

00:41 Yeah.

00:42 What kind of things do you guys draw?

00:43 Dragons.

00:44 Dragons.

00:45 That's cool.

00:46 Can you tell us who you've worked with because you've done incredible things already.

00:54 Well I've worked with quite a few.

00:57 Obviously you guys might know my books, Bad Food.

01:00 That's with Scholastic.

01:01 I've also worked with Disney on doing a light year piece that's really fun.

01:06 Harry John's has the top that I'm wearing now, that's from them.

01:11 I did a cool collab with them.

01:13 I've done quite a few yeah.

01:14 So it's all really fun.

01:16 I'm just going to play and show you.

01:20 [Laughter]

01:23 [Laughter]

01:44 Once I've got my main character I do some swirls and things like that.

01:50 Just to fill some space.

01:54 And then do some writing as well.

02:02 It's really cool.

02:04 [Laughter]

02:05 I normally do mine in black and white but some of you guys might like to use colour.

02:22 I do do that sometimes.

02:24 It's really cool just to mix things up.

02:28 [Coughing]

02:29 I didn't mean to do this to Rick but one thing a lot of everyone in my family says is

02:47 there's no right or wrong.

02:49 So if you do something and you're not happy with it, don't throw it away because it's all part of the game.

02:56 It's all good.

02:57 And yeah, there's no mistakes.

03:01 It's just about having fun and doing what you love.

03:24 I have a signature as well.

03:26 I do like the character.

03:29 I've got the character.

03:54 I'm nearly done so I'm just going to fill the space and then normally I go in and add some detail with the finished plans.

04:01 [Beep]

04:27 Okay, now I'm going to put this down.

04:31 As well, once I'm done with one layer I like to step back and have a look.

04:36 You guys like it?

04:37 [Cheering]

04:38 In fact, we can all give you some.

04:41 Can we?

04:42 [Applause]

04:43 [APPLAUSE]

04:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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